Let’s forget about the obvious question of Adolph Hitler and Nazi ideology and just ask these questions….How did we let the fascists get so far out of hand? How did Japan make so many gains in the Pacific theatre in WW2 early on? Why did the allies let it go so far? Aside from fear of another terrible world war, why?
Racism.
The US, the British,the Dutch and French weren’t ready for Japan and suffered gravely losing most or all of its territory in the Far East and the Pacific simply because they underestimated a lethal enemy because they were not white. The Russians did exactly the same thing during the Russo/Japanese War.
In fact, the allies sat out the Italian invasion of Abyssinia mostly because they weren’t prepared to go to war over non-whites. It took the invasion of Poland to do that. By then it was arguably too late.
My point in writing this is simple. Racism isn’t just something that happens to “the other guy.” It’s only a matter of time before, as Malcom X put it, your own chickens will “come home to roost…”
Many people in this day and age will try to justify racist acts or pretend racism is a thing of the past or simply somebody else’s problem. Racism is a human trait and therefore all of our problem.
Don’t forget the mistakes of our past. Don’t repeat them. Don’t allow them to be repeated. Stay vigilant.
God Bless.
Truth in Politics 